Stories about China from September, 2007
China: Herbal Tea Soft Drink
Imagethief writes about a soft drink brand called Wang Lao Ji, which turns herbal tea into popular soft drink and is supposed to be healthy for the body. However, looking into the ingredient, it is more a sweet soft drink than herbal tea.
China: The Most Awesome Security Guard
ESWN and Zhaomu posted a series of photos to show how a security guard in Chongqin beat up a rural migrant worker who was taking a rest outside the shopping mall.
Japan: Cosplay
Pingmag has an interview with Cosplayer, Mello Yubari, on their own perception of the cosplayer world. For Mello, cosplay is a way of expressing one’s love for something – it’s a really fun mode of expression.
China: The Most Awesome Fake Reporter In History
ESWN translated a local report about a most awesome fake reporter, who earned his living by getting “red envelops” through his special feature report service.
China: Democratic House Demolition
Minjian has a great report on the experience of democratic urban renewal in Zheguo town from Zhejiang province: every year, the town selected 270 people from 120,000 population and let them decide how to use the 50 millions public fund for development. In their urban renewal project, they managed to...
South Korea and China: Mystery over death of Korean diplomat
Chris O'Brien writes a very informative detective story by going through Chinese, Korean and international reports on the death of Korean diplomat in Beijing.
China: Stock Company's Ups and Downs
Mr zhang uses the example STjintai (600385), a company in the China stock market that went through record breaking ups (42 days exceeded the limit) and a recent 4 days limited downs, to show the lack of monitor (such as on insider trade) in the stock market (zh).
China: Destroying Home Sweet Home
Zenjinyan writes in her blog that everyone has a home, it shouldn't be a far fetched dream, but a basic human right. According to the report of the Centre on housing rights and evictions, in Beijing, because of the Olympics, more than 1,250,000 people have their homes destroyed; in Shanghai,...
China: Violent BBQ crackdown backfires
City administration officials in Chongqing attacked an illegal barbecue vendor, then the massive crowd which had formed attacked them, setting fire to the officials' vehicle; the riot squad was called in and the conflict went on into the early morning.
China: Song on GFW
Calon from bullog changed the lyrics of “I bet you they won’t play this song on the radio” into a song on Great Fire Wall: I bet you they won’t stop the G-F-W, I bet you they won’t show the (bleep) to you, It’s not that it’s (bleep) or (bleep)...
China: Net Nanny Goes Crazy
Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI translated and collected more comments and news on the recent harmonizing act by the net nanny because of the up-coming 17th party congress.
China: Barcamp Beijing 2007
Andrew Lih writes a brief report on the Barcamp 2007 unconference in Beijing last Sunday: The grassroots, unpredictible nature of these plan-on-the-spot unconferences make them uncomfortable for the authorities here, but perhaps they’ll see these do much more good than harm.
China: Getting Lazy in Blogday
Yee tried to explain why bloggers in China, Taiwan and Hongkong seemed to be lazy to celebrate blogday 2007.
China: Model Worker Award (English Division)
DANWEI's editors have chosen a list of model workers (websites) which provide and translate most significant news, comments and informations on China.
China: Internet Censorship Goes Crazy
William Long reports on the situation of Internet censorship before the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Japan and China: Smog
JP from Japundit discusses the problem of smog in Japan in relation to China: Though China is suspected as the source of the smog, there is no accurate measurement of what percent of Japanese air pollution comes from the continent and how much is home-generated.
Free Speech Roundup: Tunisia, Egypt, China, Thailand
France-based video sharing site Dailymotion has been blocked, again, in Tunisia. Egyptian blogger Abdel Monem Mahmoud, who has been released in June 2007 is facing detention threats. In China people who are using China Telecom are unable to access FeedBurner feeds. And Thailand lifted its ban on YouTube but Veoh and MetaCafe still blocked.
China: Faked Newspaper Page Won Top Chinese Journalism Award
ESWN translated a blog post which discovered the fact that an award winning newspapers page from Yangzhou evening news was faked.
China: Why patriotism won't save the Chinese film industry
Imagethief comments on Han Sanping, Chairman of the government-backed China Film Group's call for more patriotism in Chinese movies: If Han Sanping truly loves the Chinese film industry he should therefore do everything in his power to ensure that the government sets it free, because at the moment it's in...
China: Anti-monopoly Law
Chinese Law Prof blogged a summary made by Paul Jones on the newly passed anti-monopoly law in China.
China: World Largest Christian Population?
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist has written a piece on the development of religion in China and predicted that Christianity's next golden age will be in China.
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